Bioassay substrate with feeder wirings

• US 20070077644A1
• Filed: 10/21/2004
• Published: 04/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yoshio, Akira
• Application Number:
  US10/577,250
• Publication Number:
  US 20070077644A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 435/287.200
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/5438 Electrodes

Abstract

Provided is a configuration of feeder wirings for electrodes provided for reaction regions arranged in multiplicity on a disk-shaped substrate. Feeder wirings extended from a current passing portion (U) provided at a central portion of a substrate (A) to electrodes provided in reaction regions (R) arranged in multiplicity on the substrate so as to be fields for interactions between substances are each composed of a first wiring (1) led out from the current passing portion (U) toward the outer circumference of the substrate, a second wiring (2) branched from the first wiring, and a third wiring (3) branched further from the second wiring, and a voltage is impressed on the electrodes from the current passing portion (U) through the feeding wirings (1, 2, 3), to develop an electric field in the reaction regions (R).

Claims

1. A bioassay substrate being a disk-shaped substrate provided with reaction regions to be fields for interactions between substances and comprising electrodes provided in said reaction regions, a current passing portion provided at a central portion of said substrate, and feeder wirings for feeding electric currents from said current passing portion to said electrodes, wherein:

said feeder wiring is included a first wiring led out toward the circumference of said substrate from said current passing portion, a second wiring branched from said first wiring, and a third wiring branched further from said second wiring; and

a voltage is impressed on said electrodes from said current passing portion through said feeder wirings so as to generate electric fields in said reaction regions.

2. The bioassay substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein said third wiring is extended from said second wiring toward the outside or inside in a radial direction.

3. The bioassay substrate as set forth in claim 2, wherein said third wirings are terminal feeder wirings connected to said electrodes.

4. The bioassay substrate as set forth in claim 3, wherein said third wirings are extended on radial lines passing through the center of said substrate and are gradually increased in width from the substrate center side toward the substrate circumference side so that the width of said reaction regions each arranged between the adjacent third wirings is constant.

5. The bioassay substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein the extensions of the center lines of said third wirings pass through the center of said substrate.

6. The bioassay substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein said third wirings function also as said electrodes.

7. The bioassay substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein said electrodes are comprised of at least a pair of electrodes opposed to each other, and the electrode on one side and the electrode on the other side of said opposed electrodes are connected respectively to different third wirings alternately branched from said second wiring.

8. The bioassay substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein said reaction regions are grouped in units each composed of a predetermined number of said reaction regions.

9. The bioassay substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein all of said reaction regions on said substrate are arranged in a pattern of concentric circles or a spiral line.

10. The bioassay substrate as set forth in claim 1, wherein all of said reaction regions are arranged on radial lines passing through the center of said substrate.